{"id":6332,"date":"2023-10-21T18:30:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T11:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoboctn.ru\/?p=6332"},"modified":"2026-07-04T16:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:17:06","slug":"notes-from-an-american-in-donbass-rtd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/?p=6332","title":{"rendered":"Notes from an American in Donbass &#8211; RTD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/rtd.rt.com\/films\/notes-from-an-american-in\/embed\/\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notes from an American in Donbass<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Trip to Donbass sparked an epiphany for an American journalist<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If I die in the [special operation] zone remember that an American journalist was killed by American weapons being used on civilians!&#8221; This statement was posted by independent journalist Tofurius Maximus Crane from the United States as he headed to Donetsk to witness events in Donbass first-hand. On his very first day in Donetsk, Tofurius found himself under shelling on a street with no military targets or soldiers. What surprised him the most was the calmness of the residents \u2013 for the past 9 years, shelling had become a terrifying routine for them. He also witnessed the destruction of residential areas, where Ukrainian soldiers sought refuge in the apartments of civilians. Having experienced first-hand what it&#8217;s like for civilians to be constantly in the crosshairs of Ukrainian nationalists, Tofurius couldn&#8217;t contain his emotions. Why is this conflict portrayed so differently in his home country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from an American in Donbass A Trip to Donbass sparked an epiphany for an American journalist &#8220;If I die in the [special operation] zone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6332\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somniantes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}